earthquakes, which have killed more than 33,000 people in both countries. defying the odds this ten year old girl is one of the latest in a number of survivors to have been pulled out alive from under the rubble of collapsed buildings in turkey. the head of russia s wagner mercenary army claims his fighters have captured a village on the outskirts of bakhmut, a city they ve been assaulting for months. a us fighterjet has shot down a mysterious object flying over canada s airspace, making it the third to be destoyed over north america in the last week. bbc chairman, richard sharp, is accused of making significant errors ofjudgement by mps for not declaring his involvement in helping britain s former prime minister, borisjohnson, secure a loan. those are our headlines. now it s time for hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. the first anniversary of russia s all out invasion of ukraine is fast approaching. there s a feeling in both kyiv and moscow that it would
you re watching bbc news. now it s time for hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. the first anniversary of russia s all out invasion of ukraine is fast approaching. there s both a feeling in both kyiv and moscow that it would herald a new phase in the war. president zelensky is visiting european allies with his focus firmly on the challenges to come. a new russian offensive is seemingly imminent. the west is arming ukraine, but still not at the speed and scale kyiv would wish. my guest is ukrainian mp kira rudik. can ukraine win a long war? kira rudik in kyiv, welcome to hardtalk. hello. thank you so much for having me, stephen. a pleasure to have you on the show. i would like you to reflect on president zelensky s message here in europe. do you think the focus from the ukrainian government is more on the gratitude for what european partners have already delivered or more on the urgency to give more now? i think it is 50 50. what we learned over this last year is
visiting european allies with his focus firmly on the challenges to come. a new russian offensive is seemingly imminent. the west is arming ukraine, but still not at the speed and scale kyiv would wish. my guest is ukrainian mp kira rudik. can ukraine win a long war? kira rudik in kyiv, welcome. thank you so much for having me. a pleasure to have you. i would like you to reflect on president zelensky s message here in europe. do you think the focus from the ukrainian government is more on the gratitude for what european partners have already delivered or more on the urgency to give more now? i think it is 50 50. what we learned over this last year is that you have to create alliances, you have to keep it and you keep the alliances with gratitude but also we want the world to keep supporting us. the war did not start a year ago. it started in 2014 and what was the most painful is after a year, it became a new normal. a new normal for everyone and we still had to fight our figh
nicaragua has freed more than 200 opposition political prisoners and deported them to the united states. they were greeted at the airport by a crowd waving flags. now on bbc news, it s hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. the first anniversary of russia s all out invasion of ukraine is fast approaching. there s both a feeling in both kyiv and moscow would herald a new phase in the war. president zelensky is visiting european allies with his focus firmly on the challenges to come. a new russian offensive is seemingly imminent. the west is arming ukraine, but still not at the speed and scale kyiv would wish. my guest is ukrainian mp kira rudik. can ukraine win a long war? kira rudik in kyiv, welcome. hello. thank you so much for having me, stephen. a pleasure to have you on the show. i would like you to reflect on president zelensky s message here in europe. do you think the focus from the ukrainian government is more on the gratitude for what european partners ha
missiles, right now the promises of the tanks is much better than no promises because we know that at some point we will have those. but sure, in the short run, they can t fight with promises, and never mind the tanks issue where at least you have a commitment to tanks coming, when it comes to war planes, combat aircraft, president zelensky in london again made a passionate plea for these warplanes, he called them the wings for freedom. but we know that from 0laf scholz in germany and most particularly to joe biden in the united states, the answer still is we do not think it is right for us to send warplanes to ukraine. so again, ultimately, it is a question of disappointment, isn t it? not really. we again learned that no is something that you could work with,